HP MPIO Full Featured DSM for EVA4x00/6x00/8x00 family of Disk Arrays 4.01.00 installation and reference guide (AA-RW7SP-TE, September 2010)

Contents
1 Installing the HP MPIO Full Featured DSM for EVA4x00/6x00/8x00 family
of Disk Arrays ....................................................................................... 7
Preparing for installation .............................................................................................................. 7
Installing HP MPIO EVA DSM ....................................................................................................... 8
Installing HP MPIO EVA DSM on a stand-alone system .............................................................. 8
Installing HP MPIO EVA DSM on a clustered system .................................................................. 9
Upgrading HP MPIO EVA DSM .................................................................................................... 9
Upgrading HP MPIO EVA DSM on a stand-alone system ........................................................... 9
Upgrading HP MPIO EVA DSM on a clustered system ............................................................. 10
Migrating HP MPIO EVA DSM from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008 ....................... 10
Removing HP MPIO EVA DSM .................................................................................................... 11
Using silent installation .............................................................................................................. 12
Installing HP MPIO EVA DSM .............................................................................................. 13
Upgrading HP MPIO EVA DSM ............................................................................................ 14
Removing HP MPIO EVA DSM ............................................................................................. 14
Creating response files for silent mode operations .................................................................. 14
Setting up boot from SAN .......................................................................................................... 15
2 Support for load balancing in Failover Cluster Server environment for
Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 ............................ 17
Recovering inaccessible disk devices ........................................................................................... 17
3 Load balancing ............................................................................... 19
Subset based load balancing ..................................................................................................... 19
Use case scenarios ............................................................................................................. 20
Adaptive Load Balance ............................................................................................................. 20
4 Managing storage arrays using the HP MPIO EVA DSM with the CLI
utility ................................................................................................. 23
hpdsm devices ......................................................................................................................... 23
hpdsm devices all ..................................................................................................................... 24
hpdsm paths device .................................................................................................................. 25
hpdsm set device policy ............................................................................................................. 26
hpdsm set device subset path ..................................................................................................... 26
hpdsm set device alb ................................................................................................................ 27
hpdsm set device path ............................................................................................................... 28
hpdsm cleanup device ............................................................................................................... 28
hpdsm notify ............................................................................................................................ 29
hpdsm help .............................................................................................................................. 31
Commands to manage the HP EVA DSM parameters ..................................................................... 31
5 Support and other resources .............................................................. 33
HP MPIO Full Featured DSM for EVA4x00/6x00/8x00 family of Disk Arrays 4.01.00 installation
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